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George Williams' current paintings focus on observational studies within London's cityscape, exploring the structural values paint can offer when placed upon a surface in varying degrees of impasto. This building-like method of painting has developed a great deal in the past three years, a time in which George switched from the small-town suburban landscapes of his hometown in Abergavenny, to the towering heights and vast metropolis of London.

Over the past year and a half, the work's main focus has developed through studies of street scenes and their architectural surroundings, taken from walking within London and around his home in Bow. The culmination of these sketches and photographs is to create a network of paintings which combine as one solid, architectural body of work.

During the creative process, oil paint is used as the primary medium in which to depict these realities. The material values of the oils; the structural, buttery, timely drying process, are all key to the desired effect George aims to create with his painting, that of a surface being dominated in a saturated, workman-like body of heavily cemented paint.

George's current work consists of mainly small scale canvases, depicting slices of buildings, people, streets, which go together as one body of painting; a small canvas showing a slither of one building may be placed along with a painting of people on a busy street, and several other works in a puzzle-like manner (with slight gaps between each) upon the wall space they occupy. A system of carefully examining the elements of colour and composition decide on an order for hanging pieces together.